Microsoft no longer thinks Linux poses a threat to its desktop Windows business.
Directions on Microsoft's Wes Miller pointed out via Twitter how Microsoft has changed the boilerplate "Competition" section in its last two annual financial filings with the SEC.

Um... Okay... So despite me saying here, pretty clearly I think, that I use Fedora+GNOME as my main OS, if I criticize both Windows and Linux, I'm necessarily pro-Apple... Right ?

Wrong. As I also said here, I think that all modern desktop and mobile operating systems suck in their own way. I choose the less painful option, which happens to be Linux. Not paying a minimum of $1000 for the lowest-end laptop available, which doesn't even provide decent connectivity for the price (because, you know, it has to be so thin).